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Chamaeleon

The Chameleon

Abbreviation: Cha
Genitive: Chamaeleotis

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At the end of the sixteenth century the observations of Dutch explorers
Pieter Dirkszoon Keyser and Frederick de Houtman allowed Dutch
astronomer Petrus Plancius to create this constellation. It was one of
many constellations devised by European astronomers in the sixteenth and
seventeenth centuries out of the newly-discovered (to them!) southern
hemisphere stars.